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Post by Dr Strange on Mar 19, 2013 15:58:06 GMT
I also enjoyed Drood - and I think you're the only other person that I can remember saying the same. It can be a bit ponderous, and more than a bit ridiculous, in places - but it's also a fantastic imagining of what might have been going on between Dickens and Collins. Guillermo del Toro was supposed to be working on a film version - but it looks like it might have gone the same way as his At The Mountains of Madness project.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Mar 19, 2013 16:04:13 GMT
I really didn't enjoy Uncle Silas at all, despite its reputation. I thought it had aged rather badly and strained credulity beyond maintenance Well, to each his own and all that, but I think "straining credulity" is precisely the point. The basic premise of UNCLE SILAS---that a man would put his own beloved daughter at risk in order to prove to the world that his brother, whom everyone else believes is a murderer, is an upstanding citizen---is one of the most preposterous in all of literature, and Le Fanu must have laughed himself silly when he came up with it. That he managed to tell the tale with a more or less straight face, from the point of view of a fantastically self-deluded narrator, is a major accomplishment. I personally find this one of the most entertaining things ever written.
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Post by DemonSpawn on Mar 20, 2013 8:21:14 GMT
I tend to prefer books to be about 2-300 hundred pages or so.
Books I have read that were over 1000 pages were nearly all (but not quite all) in need of editing.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 26, 2013 13:37:26 GMT
I normally have more than one on the go. Recently hit five, but finished two last night-
Nazis & The Occult - a lightweight tome than didn't have much to say, but gave Trevor Ravenscroft a bit of a kicking (Jim, if you're out there - vindicated!) Coming Down Fast - a book about Charles Manson and the Family. Tex and the girls are on their way to 10050 Ceilo Drive - I'm stuck there at moment. My Appetite For Destruction - Steven Adler (and a ghostwriter) Guns'N'Roses drummer tells all in excessive (and sometimes downright pornographic) style. It's all about to go horribly wrong. Scream And Scream Again - 'Peter Saxon' - finished last night. What a corker! Jackie Brown (previously Rum Punch) by Elmore Leonard - as a result of finally seeing the film.
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